Sarah Cross’s Beau Rivage series and Alethea Kontis’s Woodcutter Sisters series are like Rose Red and Rose White, two dark and light fairy-tale sisters. Both are juicy, wildly fun retellings, that also deal in the blunt brutality familiar to any fairy-tale fan. But where Cross’s world is a contemporary one, a small 21st-century town where death and dismemberment pass […]
Are you looking forward to Emma Swan’s “final battle” on <i>Once Upon a Time</i>? Or will the penultimate, musical episode always be your favorite? According to Jack Zipes, author of Spells of Enchantment, “Fairy tales are grounded in history: they emanate from specific struggles to humanize…barbaric forces.” As viewers of OUAT know, they also fulfill our […]